I’d say they’re made more for the man-child who refuses to, or is incapable of, growing up. This is probably the main reason why they’re so bad.
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Mandy, with Nick Cage.
I’m fairly speechless. It was bad beyond belief, yet I let it play on and on.
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I was at Sundance that year. Blew a lot of people away. A critic buddy of mine who was lodging with me told me he had nightmares about it.
From the recent movies Shazam! and Joker have many good reviews
Wonder Woman 2 is going to release on December 17 in Taiwan
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Oh I don’t care if I have to wear an N95 and hazmat suit, I want to see this on the big screen. Yeah!
It is a special kind of bad, brilliant in a way. Have you tried Color out of Space?
I have it, but haven’t seen it yet.
Zappa, 2020
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - I liked John Candy in it, but everything else about it just felt really dated. Not really a big fan.
The Crying Game - This was fantastic until the last 20 minutes of soapy, melodramatic mess happened. The central performances were excellent though, esp. Miranda Richardson. Her Irish accent was astonishing.
The Sixth Sense - I somehow had never seen this. I thought it was extremely predictable and I actually made an effort to not spoil myself beforehand. I saw the famous twist coming from a thousand miles away. Toni Collette was perfection in it (as she usually is), though. Overall it was merely ok. The Others is 10 times better.
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Howl about Allen Ginsberg’s most famous poem.
Amazing story, never seen a plot quite the same as this movie, with James Franco. Really makes you think.
That was a brilliant performance. She stole the movie.
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The best movie I saw this year was “Knives Out” (Wealthy mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey’s family attend his 85th birthday party at his Massachusetts mansion. The next morning, Harlan’s housekeeper Fran finds Harlan dead, with his throat slit. The police believe it was suicide, but an anonymous party pays private eye Benoit Blanc to investigate).
AND I LIKED IT VERY MUCH! I think its one of the best films in recent years, I advise it to everyone !!
I also really liked the Netflix series “Marianne”. It’s very creepy, I haven’t finished watching it yet, but I will definitely do it!
I also re-watched one of my favorite TV series - “Lie to Me”. Always trying to memorize techniques and bring people to the truth haha.
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‘Knives Out’ was very good. Like a modern twist of an Agatha Christie novel (and the detective is a little reminiscent of Hercule Poirot).
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Knives Out is … adequate. There’s nothing fundamentally terrible about it, but there’s also nothing really special about it. I feel like it was such a critical juggernaut only because competent whodunit (e.g. Gosford Park, the original Death on the Nile) is rare these days.
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Agreed, given the talent involved I was a bit underwhelmed. Still was worth a second watch, though!
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I watched Unhinged with Russell Crowe. Watchable and only 90min. Russell Crowe did a great job acting that carried the movie.
“The Other F Word” had been on my to-watch list for a while and I just found out it’s available for free with Amazon prime. Great documentary, touching, humane, honest, about punk rockers growing up and having to reconcile their inner punk teenager with their responsibilities as dads. With interviews of members of Pennywise, NOFX, Red Hot Chili Peppers and so on.
…now I’m having a midlife crisis and feel I wanna pop three kids myself.
It’s basically a summary of everything I played on my Discman when I was an angry teen in the late 90s. Pennywise… man, I haven’t thought about them in years.
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The Matrix
A great movie, oddly doesn’t seemed dated or old, with the advanced special effects for the time, some classic movie scenes.
Was on today on TV, on MOD channel 616 Warner TV HD.
Matrix Reloaded same channel 1pm tomorrow
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just re-watched all three on Netflix, totally agree